Wordfest presents Lorna Crozier

Discover new poetry that is at once profound, original and lively, and yet so much fun! Hosted by Rosemary Griebel, this unforgettable evening with one of Canada's most celebrated poets includes readings, an on-stage interview and audience Q&A, followed by a book signing.

The poet Lorna Crozier has always been brilliant at fusing the ordinary with the other-worldly in strange and surprising ways. Now, the Governor General’s Literary Award-winning author of Inventing the Hawk returns with God of Shadows, a wryly wise book that offers a polytheistic gallery of the gods we never knew existed and didn’t know we needed. To read these poems is to be ready to offer your own prayers to the god of shadows, the god of quirks, and the god of vacant houses. Sing new votive hymns to the gods of horses, birds, cats, rats, and insects. And give thanks at the altars of the gods of doubt, guilt, and forgetting. What life-affirming questions have these deities come to ask? Perhaps it is simply this: How can poems be at once so profound, original and lively, and also so much fun?

About Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is the award-winning author of fifteen previous books of poetry, most recently Small Mechanics, The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems, and Whetstone. She is also the author of The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things and the memoir Small Beneath the Sky. She is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria and an Officer of the Order of Canada, and she has received three honorary doctorates for her contributions to Canadian Literature. Born in Swift Current, she now lives in British Columbia.

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Celebrating its 23rd year, Wordfest connects Calgarians with life-changing experiences at over 180 events with 120+ artists year-round, and at the Festival, from October 8 to 15, 2018.